Most current file systems have methods of administering permissions or access rights to specific users and groups of users. These systems control the ability of the users to view or make changes to the contents of the filesystem.
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Windows 7 won't update while using FBWF (file based write filter)
Good Morning! I have a PC running Windows 7 ThinPC. I found a script on Microsoft's website (located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff850921.aspx) with instructionson how to set it up. ...
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How do I restore Windows ACL to default?
A few months ago I got my computer, and instead of sticking with the preinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium and OEM stuff I decided I want a clean install from a DreamSpark disc. At the time I also ...
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Create read-only files on SMB share
I have a home server set up with SMB shares. Those shares are actually external HDD's with NTFS connected to the server.
My question is, how do i make it so that users can create or delete files on ...
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Why don't I have permission to open a file in my documents?
In Windows 7, I am trying to open a file in my documents. When I do, I get the error message:
You don't have permission to open this file. Contact the file owner or
an administrator to obtain ...
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Mysterious Permission Problems Windows 7 - Access denied no luck with takeown
I have no idea how this has happened. I am running a VM on a drive and out of nowhere all permissions on that drive seem to have somehow become corrupt.
I cannot open directories on the drive. ...
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Unable to move Desktop Files on Windows 7
Has anyone come across an issue while running on Windows 7 Professional on a domain, where all the sudden they can no longer move around any files on the desktop?
What's even more weird is when I try ...
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File permissions issue with an NFSv4 share, uploaded from a Mac Lion
I have an NFSv4 share that was working fine, with Macs using Snow Leopard, to share files across the network. The NFS share has one cloned user/group that all clients autoconnect as. All files ...
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Samba create mask not working correctly
I have a samba share on a linux server (RHEL 6) that I am accessing via Windows 7.
I set the samba share with a create mask of 0664, but when I create files via samba from my Windows 7 machine, it ...
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How do you stop file renaming in file server?
I have installed windows server 2008 r2 and configured FSRM role properly. I have enabled file screening there and blocked all types (*.*) of files to be saved there and have created an exclude lists ...
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Internet Explorer - Open file dialog with IP address & hostname
I am having a static php page with a simple input type file, for file upload.
If I open http://127.0.0.1/mypage.php in internet explorer, if I click on it, it opens "open file dialog", but it doesn't ...
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Windows will erase permissions on files
I have been seeing issues where Windows seems to "reset" permissions on files after I had set them. I have seen this in various versions of Windows. I'm sorry I don't have much more information. The ...
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Deleting system files that are in a remote shared folder?
I have my videos on a Windows Home Server. I have access to the shared folders, i.e. \\server\movies, with modify permissions.
When I try to delete a folder like \\server\movies\movie, other files ...
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Retaining usable permissions and ownership copying unix files to NTFS
I have an old solaris system with terabytes of data on it. Recently we got a new server and I went along with the recommendation of a windows server "because it was easy to manage". Someone copied ...
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Office Compatibility Pack and File Permissions
MS isn't my thing, so I hope somebody can give me a pointer.
We have a Windows domain, with a Server-2003-SP1-Enterprise file server. One of the specific files is a MS Excel 2007 (XLSX) file created ...
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rsync permissions from Windows (cygwin) to Linux server
I'm trying to sync files from development machine running Windows (using cygwin) to staging server running Linux.
I tried rsync -avz --no-p --no-g so synced directories/files would receive default ...
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Problems in Linux Mint 13 MATE with NTFS partitions
I'm using Linux Mint 13 MATE (32 bit).
With Caja file manager (based on Nautilus 2.x) I can create, modify and remove folders and files on NTFS partitions whitout problems.
But, for example, when I ...
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Windows 7 and ExpanDrive permissions
I am running Windows 7 Ultimate and using ExpanDrive, which creates what appears to be a removable storage device in my computer with data from a remote server. For example, I can add an S3 server as ...
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groups permissions not working
I'm confused why is this not working? Admin group is having access on the /opt directory and I'm the member of that group and still I can not make a new directory there.
vita@eldamar:/opt$ ll /
total ...
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OS X - read permission on NTFS drive
I'm on OS X Mountain Lion and I try to copy a folder from an NTFS formatted usb drive, which I stored there from a Windows 7 computer.
The NTFS drive is mounted as read only in Mountain Lion, which ...
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Lost file mode information on ext3 directory hierarchy
An entire directory hierarchy of mine lost its file mode info. E.g.,
ed@bob:~/dev$ ls -l nir.git/
ls: cannot access nir.git/test: Permission denied
ls: cannot access nir.git/log: Permission denied
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You dont currently have permission to access this folder error
I bought a new SATA Hard drive and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on it. I also installed my old one beside the new SATA HD.
Now I want to access my images / musics and videos but I get this ...
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SVN export yields different file permissions on 2 systems with same umask
I have a machine with Ubuntu 10.10 and a machine with Ubuntu 11.10.
When I do a svn export on the 10.10 machine, this gives all directories a 755 permission. The 11.10 machine sets the directories to ...
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Linux directory permissions, owner can create and read but not delete
I want to create a folder, so the owner can create and read files but not be able to delete them. I tried with ACL, but the owner can still delete the files.
$ setfacl --set u::rwx,g::-,o::- control
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File permissions for uploading images to server using uploadify
I am using jQuery uploadify to dynamically load pictures to a website.
The files were not being loaded into the uploaded_image dir on the server
at this stage the folder had permision 755 for ...
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How to set default permissions for all applications to a windows 7 image?
I will be using the Extended Change Access Control List tool (Xcacls.exe) application to perform this task and after looking at the tool I can apply changes to files and folders easily.
My goal is ...
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Granting Java and file access to a trusted program
When I log into a vpn for work It always asks to grant it file access rights. It also asks for to use or access Java (3 times). I rust the program, can I give automatic or permanent rights to such ...
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Search in Windows 7 (not English version) is returning more than one occurence for “the same file”
As a superuser, I created a superproblem in my computer :)
I like to see all hidden files to detect viruses and to learn more about the OS. So I show all hidden and system files.
Once upon a time I ...
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Fax Console issue
This might fit better here, I asked it on ServerFault with no responses.
I just moved our whole office over to a domain to be able to apply proper permission settings. I migrated all the user ...
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File access from client Windows Server 2012 works with procmon enabled, otherwise doesn't
Windows Server 2012, running Terminal Services has a client application installed. The server part is located on another Windows Server 2012.
The client application is an old one, based on dBase.
...
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Windows 8 Security shows all “permissions incorrectly ordered”
I have a strange Folder/File security problem with a new Windows 8 Pro machine and I spent 3+ hours on the phone with Microsoft today and they don't have a 'fix' but have heard of it a "couple of ...
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Prevent copying from specific network locations
A tad unusual question! I need to prevent users from copying (via Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V, Drag+Drop, Edit>Copy / Edit>Paste) from a folder on the local machine. I won't go into details of why, as it's ...
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rsync bullies destination ACLs for fun
I have the following ACLs configured on a directory (.ssh) at the destination of my rsync:
# file: .ssh
# owner: jsmith
# group: jsmith
user::rwx
user:backup:r-x
group::---
group:backup:r-x
mask::r-x
...
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Windows server network drive can't run exes
I have a domain run by a Windows Server 2008 R2 with Active Directory. I have a program on the server which I created a mapped drive to on each of the client computers. All client computers are ...
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Windows 8 resetting permissions
I have a Windows 7 Ultimate machine that was upgraded to Windows 8 Pro. There's a recurring issue that's preventing IIS from serving a folder tree. After some experimentation, I think I found the ...
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Fedora Live USB
I'm following this http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=283055 to be able to install fedora from usb, however i'm stuck when modifying a file,
I need to modify EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.conf, but ...
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Windows shell not starting for any user?
Admin accounts boot up just fine. And adding a user to the admin group fixes it until they are moved back to just being a user.
This happens on new accounts that are created.
Im able to bring up ...
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OSX WebServer Locked Files/Folders
I've been trying to figure this out for the last hour with no luck. On OSX 10.7 I've set up my WebServer and enabled PHP5 without any issues. When I add documents to the Documents folder they lock ...
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disallowing anonymous access to some files in iis 7.5
Could someone guide me on how to do what is mentioned at the following link, on IIS 7.5:
http://www.iss.net/security_center/reference/vuln/frontpage-ext-bad-permissions.htm
In short it is meant to ...
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Show only files owned by the user
I have a folder containing lots of backup images. I want users to only see their own files. I've tried setting the permissions to 000 but they still can see the file using ls (the backups belong to ...
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Cannot delete Clearcase view private files
I often face a nagging issue, the solution of which is still unknown to me.
Often when using clear-case, my build system (gmake - cygwin - gnuwin32) generates files which cannot be removed. I tried ...
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How to display assets on localhost
I'm trying to run a site on a MAMP stack, but when I load a page the assets aren't showing up. I inspected the Net tab in Firebug, and my stylesheet tags are pointing to the right CSS files, but the ...
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Permission denied httpd webrequest to perl
Sorry for the somewhat confusing title, and my lacking English. Now we have that out of the way my question:
I have httpd - Apache/2.2.15 on a CentOs virtual machine. This is running Seccubus, with ...
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How do I upload to a directory with 777 permissions via the browser?
I'm on Centos and Apache is installed. Say I made one of my directories with 777 permissions.
What are some possible ways to write to that directory?
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Strange permission changes when saving file on a Samba partition from a Windows editor
I'm trying to figure out why a specific behavior is exibited when perms change on a file being saved from a Windows editor on a SAMBA-mounted Unix partition.
Situation:
We have a file on Unix, with ...
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Need Eudora 7.1 MAPI to work so I can sync with GMAIL
Eudora Windows 7 MAPI working
I'm just trying to figure out how to get MAPI working enough for the sole purpose of linking all my existing Eudora emails to a GMAIL account. I don't need any other ...
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Is it possible to control file access on a per process level?
I have file on my file system, I would like to be able to control access to this file on a per-process level. For example, I would like to be able to set up an instance where each of the following ...
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Saving videos from an ActiveX CCTV UI results in invisible files - IE9 low integrity / protected-mode voodoo?
I am using IE9 with ActiveX served from a no-name China CCTV DVR appliance.
IE9 security settings had to be relaxed in order for the ActiveX script to be run at all, this is a common hassle with ...
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How can I unlock a non system MAC os 10.5.8 drive
I have just had to reinstall OS 10.5.8 on my G4 tower (I'm using it as a file server/auxiliary machine) I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it but, I have another internal drive in the ...
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Different default permission for directory and file
I want to set a different default permission for new directory and file. For example, default directory permission is 770 (group members can write things to the directory) but default file permission ...
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rsync windows to linux permission denied
Using Command
rsync -avzP --delete --omit-dir-times ../../ ext@mysite.com:/var/www/mysite/
I'm getting
rsync: mkstemp "/var/www/mysite/.." failed: Permission denied (13)
If ext is in the ...
